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Oracle: Getting Ready to Sail their AC45x in Bermuda

Oracle has performed the traditional Bermudian roof wetting ceremony with a bottle of Gosling’s Rum – the main ingredient in a Dark’n’Stormy.

America's Cup The two Grants - Grant Gibbons, Bermuda Minister of Economic Development and Grant Simmer, Oracle Team USA General Manager - perform the roof wetting ceremony at the team's new base in Dockyard. Photo: JP Roujas
America’s Cup The two Grants – Grant Gibbons, Bermuda Minister of Economic Development and Grant Simmer, Oracle Team USA General Manager – perform the roof wetting ceremony at the team’s new base in Dockyard. Photo: JP Roujas

While the Dark’n’Stormy’s were popular, the main attraction at the ceremony was the team’s AC45x “Sport,” apparently on schedule to sail on May 1st.

America's Cup Oracle's AC45x in their new base in Bermuda
America’s Cup Oracle’s AC45x in their new base in Bermuda
America's Cup Oracle's AC45x - scheduled to be sailing on May 1st on Bermuda's Great Sound
America’s Cup Oracle’s AC45x – scheduled to be sailing on May 1st on Bermuda’s Great Sound
America's Cup Oracle sailors Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton, Andrew Campbell and Rome Kirby have all been out on the Great Sound in the team's two man Flying Phantom foiling catamarans. Photo: Warren Jones.
America’s Cup Oracle sailors Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton, Andrew Campbell and Rome Kirby have all been out on the Great Sound in the team’s two man Flying Phantom foiling catamarans. Photo: Warren Jones.